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I went to look at a job the other day and the lady who hired me told me she did construction work but not usually plumbing. It was her 86-year-old mom's trailer, however, and she had run PEX pipes all over the place, and not very well.

Around here, you're likely to find anything. I was in a house a few weeks ago that had been badly plumbed in galvanized about 30 years ago. I was using copper then, but there were still some DIYs around who couldn't solder. Those are the kinds of jobs where you'll see non-tapered threads because they borrowed a threader from a sparky.

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I looked at a set of blueprints for a GC today. He also owns about 30 properties. I ask him what kind of water pipe he wants. I suggest copper but remind him it's more expensive.

He says, "I like that new stuff, PEX. If I want to do anything to it I don't have to call a plumber. Just go to Lowes & HD and buy a set of crimpers."

Something to think about for all the PEX, Sharkbite, ProPress fans.

J.C.

I have been saying this for a while, Its not only pex but many products now for the trades, We need to get more young people involved in these trades and keep the "journey man" alive.....just my thoughts ....copper rules

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dunbar, that sounds fine and dandy until you have a signed contract and you are now legally obligated to do the job.

rick.

Not to mention the bad rep you could get from him bad-mouthing you for screwing with him. Yeah, you really didn't want his work but now others will think twice of working with you.

Just tell him you're not interested in working under those conditions and move on, and don't waste another minute with his BS. I think you look more professional and you've wasted less time on him than playing along for a couple weeks and then dumping him.

"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)